Job, Weigh In, And A Goal!

Soooo a week of being a forced lady of leisure. I had a lovely time down in Dorset firstly with a good friend and then with the parents and sister.

Came home yeaterday to a stroppy teenager. Sigh.. when will he actually appreciate everything I have done for him, all the things he has done, all the years of struggling and me going without so he can do those things?

A year he has been unemployed and it doesn’t seem he is doing anything much about getting a job. He doesn’t contribute to the house and he has become increasingly rude and selfish. Last night he said (not for the first time) he wished I wasn’t his mother. If that is the case wtf is he still living here for?! Aggggghhhhh!?!?!??!?!

With the stress of being unemployed, grief and abuse from the son I have had my fill this week, and have been ready for something good to happen. Well today it has. I was asked yesterday to attend an interview today for a job that I thought I would have no chance of getting. Getting there 1/2 an hour early I finally found a parking space and went in to be shown around the facility. After a quick informal chat/interview I got offered a job! Starting on Monday. Whoop!

Now all I needed was to get a good weigh in to finish the day off. Not being feeling particularly possitive about this after a night out and a huge meal last Thursday with my team from my last job, rather a lot of wine consumed at the weekend and my general eating routine being up the spout because of having no routine in my daily life because of the lack of job I headed off to class rather apprehensively. Standing on the scales and holding my breath (rather stupid thing really because that surely means I am holding additional weight in the form of air in my lungs) I waited for the verdict. This week I have lost 3lbs! Awesome!!! Really very happy with that. So that is a total of 59lbs! And, not that I can tell you what it is, but I have achieved a personal goal weight wise. So oober happy.

New Job – tick!
Private Goal Met – tick!
Weight Lost – tick!
Sun Shining – tick!
A fabulous day all in! Might play the lottery this weekend!

PC and Handover Week

Mad mad week. Work has been all a little mad. Monday was handover date at work. This is the day that contractually we have to hand over the building we have constructed to the client. They can obviously turn around and say “I’m not happy with the work I do not accept the building” which would mean big penalties for us and not to mention a few breakdowns.

So leading up to this week we have been getting more and more frantic on site which culminated in us working long and late over the weekend. As you will have seen from my previous blog I was here working my big fingers to the bone out on site. Finally leaving at about 9pm on Sunday night. What I didn’t mention in my blog was what I discovered while lying on a floor with 4 blokes peeling up glue. This was about 5pm ish. I had been on site since 8am and things were aching and if it hadn’t been for the cola caffeine high I was having at the time I would have probably curled up and slept. Anyway there I was dusty, mucky, crap all over my trousers when I noticed something strange. Taking a second look at my leg I realised the seam was showing. Looking round to my other leg I saw my other seam. It was then I realise with some horror that I had been wearing my trousers on inside out all day! I knew I had been tired when I was dressing at 7am but hadn’t realised I was that tired! How embarrassing. Thankfully they had no pockets and were just plain black ones. I don’t think anyone noticed. But then again they are all blokes on site so I am guessing they wouldn’t have realised even if they had noticed.

Anyway Monday soon arrived and back on site it was all a bit manic again, between putting signs up, chasing blokes to put blue over shoes on, peeling off protection, ordering food and drinks for the (hopefully) celebration at 3pm I was really starting to wish it was the weekend the next day. 3pm came, the client arrived. We waited as they walked around. I showed others around and filmed training that was going on. Then we got the news that they were very happy with the building, the workmanship and how far we had got.

So we achieved PC on the 15th April 2013. Not a mean feat considering we had gone through one of the wettest and coldest years in recent history. While dealing with client changes, dealing with sub-contractors, one of which sadly entered administration at a critical stage of the project.

So Worthing has its new pools, the new Splashpoint will open on the 1st May 2013, and I hope the resident of the surrounding area and visitors to the county enjoy using the facilities here.
There is:
Diving pool with moveable floors (0m to 3.8m),

25m competition pool with moveable floors (0m to 2m),

Leisure pool with slides, flume, pirate ship, water cannons, water mushroom, massage spouts and bubble machines

Outdoor shallow pool,
Fitness suite,
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Café,
Sauna,
Steam room,
Spa area with loungers,

2 Treatment rooms,
2 Studios

I really do love working in construction. I love driving past places and seeing people using and enjoying the spaces knowing I was involved in their creation and hopefully adding something beneficial to their environment and lives.

I do wonder if people do think about how these places are built and how many people, man hours, materials, skills, it took to be there.

So after a long and tiring week we are at the wonderful weigh in day.. sigh. Time of the month and getting weighed always fills me with dread, know what I mean ladies!? So hoping water retention and the fish and chips hadn’t work against me I stood on the scales to discover I have put on 3 lbs!! WHAT!?!?!?! Nahhh only joking. I lost 3lbs. That makes the total weight loss is 3 and 1/2 stone. I think that is the same as my 5 year old niece weighs! Whoop!!

Fish and Chips

Right going to get this confession done and out of the way now. Not sure it is a confession. I rather enjoyed it, and I don’t feel guilty at all!

This weekend I have worked a total of 20 hours. I have spent it all on site doing manual labour. I have been lying on floors peeling up glue, I have removed protection from every possible surface, door, windows, balustrade, chair, desk, sockets etc etc. I have put signs up I have told people off I have gone above any beyond my role of Document Controller, and today, all 12 hours of it, has definitely been the best day on site so far. I finally felt like a member of the team, its only taken 4 months!

Why all this work? Why on a weekend? We need to make PC tomorrow.  This is when we hand the building over to the client and they say yes its a good job done! Well that is the plan. I have to say at 8 am this morning it was looking very unlikely. Now? I think we might just make it.

Well anyway back to the semi-confession. The Project Manager (who has I think finally realised how fabulous I am), brought us dinner tonight. And for the first time since December I had

Fish and Chips! Ohhhh my it was the best fish and chips I have ever had.
It was hot, greasy, salty, vinegary and delicious! I am unrepentant. I have no regrets because I think I throughly deserved it and I bloody loved it!!
YUM!!!